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Gerald Markowitz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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educate the individual to a sane appreciation of the risk a history of industry s responsibility to warn of job dangers before the occupational safety and health administration
American Journal of Public Health, 2016Co-Authors: David Rosner, Gerald MarkowitzAbstract:The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and the Workers Right to Know laws later in that decade were signature moments in the history of occupational safety and health. We have examined how and why industry leaders came to accept that it was the obligation of business to provide information about the dangers to health of the materials that Workers encountered. Informing Workers about the hazards of the job had plagued labor-management relations and fed labor disputes, strikes, and even pitched battles during the turn of the century decades. Industry's rhetorical embrace of the responsibility to inform was part of its argument that government regulation of the workplace was not necessary because private corporations were doing it.
Bronwyn Mcbride - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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harms of third party criminalisation under end demand legislation undermining sex Workers safety and Rights
Culture Health & Sexuality, 2021Co-Authors: Bronwyn Mcbride, Kate Shannon, Alka Murphy, Margaret Erickson, Shira M Goldenberg, Andrea KrusiAbstract:After Canada's laws criminalising sex work were struck down by the Supreme Court for violating sex Workers' Rights and new end-demand legislation was passed in 2014. These new laws however continue to criminalise sex work third parties (i.e. venue owners/managers) who gain material benefits, despite evidence that managed in-call venues can provide important protections for sex Workers. As part of a longstanding community-based study in Vancouver, this analysis drew on 25 in-depth interviews with third parties who provide services for indoor sex Workers. We explored how end-demand third party criminalisation shapes indoor sex Workers' working conditions, health and safety. We found that most third parties were women and current/former sex Workers, problematising assumptions of third parties as exploitative male "pimps". Third parties provided client screening, security and sexual health resources for sex Workers, yet end-demand laws restricted condom availability and access to police protections in case of violence, thereby undermining sex Workers' health and safety. Our findings highlight that third party criminalisation under end-demand legislation reproduces the unsafe working conditions under the previous laws deemed unconstitutional by Canada's highest court. Legislative reforms to decriminalise all aspects of the sex industry, including sex Workers' Right to work with third parties, are urgently needed.
David Rosner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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educate the individual to a sane appreciation of the risk a history of industry s responsibility to warn of job dangers before the occupational safety and health administration
American Journal of Public Health, 2016Co-Authors: David Rosner, Gerald MarkowitzAbstract:The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and the Workers Right to Know laws later in that decade were signature moments in the history of occupational safety and health. We have examined how and why industry leaders came to accept that it was the obligation of business to provide information about the dangers to health of the materials that Workers encountered. Informing Workers about the hazards of the job had plagued labor-management relations and fed labor disputes, strikes, and even pitched battles during the turn of the century decades. Industry's rhetorical embrace of the responsibility to inform was part of its argument that government regulation of the workplace was not necessary because private corporations were doing it.
Bäckström Astrid - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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"Dom kallar oss giggare". En studie av de nya daglönarna i flexibilitetens tjänst.
Lunds universitet Avdelningen för etnologi, 2020Co-Authors: Bäckström AstridAbstract:The following paper aims to examine and discuss the gig-economy and the Workers that I call “giggare” from a cultural analysis-perspective. In this essay I hope to answer these three questions: In what way does labour operate in a material and technological aspect? How does flexibility shape the work and the worker? And how is the body of the worker visible in the labour? The study is based on the ethnographic material I collected during my fieldwork in Skåne in October of 2019. I conducted seven interviews with eight people that work or used to work within the gig-economy, most of them work as messengers for a food delivering company that exist both in Lund and Malmö. One of the participants in the study works with collecting scooters and charging them during night. For this essay I used three different theories: Zygmunt Bauman’s theory on the perspectives of work, the new worker and the new consumer, Pierre Bourdieu’s theories about capital from a power and class-perspective, and the last theory is the idea of the precariat from a intersectional and feminist perspective. To understand the idea of the precariat, I use Silvia Federici’s critique of the neglecting of the fact that woman and coloured people always experience precarious situations. It shows that despite technology is a major part of the work its not designed for the Workers use. The general belief in technological makes the workplace virtual and the lack of connection between Workers results in problems with organizing and creating unions for Workers’ Right. The second part is the idea of flexibility and how its manifests in the labour market with short contracts and insecure employments, but also how it shapes the Workers feelings about themselves and the identity of being a giggare. In the third part of the analysis, I discuss the body as a tool and the importance of a strong body. An ideal body is a young, white and non- precarious body. The ideal body, and the Ideal worker is the one the companies promote, but in reality there exists a substantial division among gender, race, age and body physics. I hope to make an invisible group of people more visible with this paper
Wendy Lyon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Client Criminalisation and Sex Workers' Right to Health
2014Co-Authors: Wendy LyonAbstract:In recent years, Ireland has seen the emergence of a well-organised campaign to introduce legislation that criminalises the purchase, but not the sale, of sexual services. While a domestic consensus has seemingly formed in favour of client criminalisation, global health and human Rights bodies have increasingly taken a contrary position: that neither party to a commercial sex transaction should be criminalised, at least where the parties are adults and the exchange takes place on a voluntary basis.This paper sets out the international legal basis for this alternative consensus among actors in the international health and human Rights sectors. It argues against client criminalisation from a human Rights perspective, focusing on sex Workers' Right to health. After a brief introduction to the Right to health in international law, it sets out various elements of the Right to health that are implicated in the proposal to criminalise sex Workers' clients. Using examples from research in countries that penalise the purchase of sex - directly or indirectly - it shows how these laws may jeopardise the health of sex Workers in a number of ways, impairing their Right to health under international law. It considers and rebuts the argument that client criminalisation actually promotes the Right to health, showing this to rest on unsupportable ideological assumptions and flawed interpretations of human Rights law. Finally, it briefly examines an alternative model - that of New Zealand, in which neither sex Workers nor their clients are criminalised, and sex work is treated as a form of labour.
